The QM system

The quality management system of QIBB

QIBB’s core element is a quality management system aiming to systematically safeguard and develop teaching quality and the quality of administration services. Therefore, both pedagogical action (i.e. initiating, supporting and facilitating socially relevant school-oriented education and training processes) and administrative action (i.e. creating, securing and developing the framework conditions necessary for teaching and learning) are at the focus of attention.

QIBB comprises all institutional levels of the school system. Processes and instruments for quality assurance and quality development are not only implemented in schools; the model provides that also school inspection (regional level) and the BMUKK‘s GD VET with its eight units (at the federal level) subject the activities (key processes) required to meet their central tasks to evaluation at regular intervals and continuous improvement.

The basic principles of work on the quality of processes and results as well as the quality management instruments applied are the same at all three system levels:

The development process follows a continuous quality control circle with four stages: planning and setting of objectives (1), implementation (2), evaluation and measurement (3) and analysis, assessment, reporting (4).

The same instruments are applied at all levels and at every educational establishment:

  • the mission statement (long-term orientation, core messages regarding function and self-image);
  • the quality matrix (key processes, long-term and medium-term objectives, implementation measures, results, indicators, evaluation methods);
  • the annual work programme (medium and short-term objectives);
  • the objective-setting discussion and the management & performance review;
  • the instruments to collect evaluation data (web-supported);
  • the quality report.

Taken from:

Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture (BMUKK), General Directorate for Vocational Education and Training: Information General Directorate for Vocational Education and Training, (12) Qualitätsinitiative BerufsBildung – QIBB. German (2007), p. 49 f.

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